AMS :: Fall Central Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 28, 2012 00:28:15

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Saturday October 20, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Toric Algebraic Geometry and Beyond, I
Room 144, College of Arts and Sciences
Organizers:
Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh
Benjamin Nill, Case Western Reserve University
Ivan Soprunov, Cleveland State University i.soprunov@csuohio.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  s-Lecture Hall Partitions, Self-Reciprocal Polynomials, and Gorenstein Algebras.
  Benjamin J Braun*, University of Kentucky
  (1084-05-76)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Lattice-point generating functions for free sums of convex sets.
  Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University
  Pallavi Jayawant, Bates College
  Tyrrell B. McAllister*, University of Wyoming
  (1084-52-28)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Ehrhart $f^*$-vectors and hypergraph coloring complexes.
  Felix Breuer*, San Francisco State University
  (1084-52-290)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Unreasonable Ubiquitousness of Quasi-polynomials.
  Kevin Woods*, Oberlin College
  (1084-52-136)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stable Intersection of Tropical Varieties.
  Anders Jensen, Aarhus University
  Josephine Yu*, Georgia Tech
  (1084-14-66)

Saturday October 20, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Toric Algebraic Geometry and Beyond, II
Room 144, College of Arts and Sciences
Organizers:
Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh
Benjamin Nill, Case Western Reserve University
Ivan Soprunov, Cleveland State University i.soprunov@csuohio.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A Tropical Approach to Computing Effective Cones.
  Florian Block*, UC Berkeley
  Diane Maclagan, University of Warwick
  (1084-14-320)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Tropical Severi Varieties and Applications.
  Jihyeon Jessie Yang*, McMaster University
  (1084-14-203)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the number of complement components of hypersurface coamoebas.
  Mounir Nisse*, Texas A&M University, College Station
  Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University, College Station
  (1084-14-104)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Tropical geometry and the Hodge theory of hypersurfaces.
  Eric Katz*, University of Waterloo
  (1084-14-154)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Tropical complexes.
  Dustin Cartwright*, Yale University
  (1084-14-310)

Sunday October 21, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Toric Algebraic Geometry and Beyond, III
Room 144, College of Arts and Sciences
Organizers:
Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh
Benjamin Nill, Case Western Reserve University
Ivan Soprunov, Cleveland State University i.soprunov@csuohio.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The maximum likelihood degree of a very affine variety.
  June Huh*, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
  (1084-14-94)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Orientability of real toric varieties and lower bounds for real polynomial systems.
  Jenya Soprunova*, Kent State University
  Frank Sottile, Texas A&M
  (1084-14-313)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Short tops and semistable fibrations.
  Ursula Whitcher*, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
  (1084-14-25)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Extensions of toric varieties.
  Mesut Şahin*, Çankırı Karatekin University
  (1084-14-297)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The combinatorial commutative algebra of $SL_3(\mathbb{C})$ conformal blocks.
  Christopher Manon*, George Mason University
  (1084-13-245)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Mutations of Laurent Polynomials and Flat Families with Toric Fibers.
  Nathan Owen Ilten*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1084-14-24)

Sunday October 21, 2012, 1:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Toric Algebraic Geometry and Beyond, IV
Room 144, College of Arts and Sciences
Organizers:
Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh
Benjamin Nill, Case Western Reserve University
Ivan Soprunov, Cleveland State University i.soprunov@csuohio.edu
- 1:30 p.m.
  On the Log Discrepancies in Toric Mori Contractions.
  Alexander A. Borisov*, University of Pittsburgh
  (1084-14-191)
- 2:00 p.m.
  On Syzygies and Singularities of Tensor Product Surfaces.
  Hal Schenck, University of Illinois
  Alexandra Seceleanu, University of Nebraska
  Javid Validashti*, University of Illinois
  (1084-14-100)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Multiplier Ideals of Certain Binomial Ideals.
  Howard M Thompson*, University of Michigan - Flint
  (1084-14-344)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Jacobi Factors of Quasi-Homogeneous Plane Curve Singularities.
  Mikhail Mazin*, Stony Brook University
  (1084-14-284)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A conjectural degree formula for subvarieties of spherical varieties.
  Gary Kennedy*, The Ohio State University
  (1084-14-305)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A degree formula for Borel orbit closures in the variety of complete conics.
  Jason A Miller*, The Ohio State University
  (1084-14-303)